Managing Director of Its Asia-Pacific & Japan Operations, Solarwinds
Search every verified Bharat Bedi interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Bharat Bedi, Managing Director for Asia Pacific & Japan at SolarWinds, discussed digital transformation and enterprise infrastructure in two podcast appearances. In a September 2024 interview at ETBFSI Converge, Bedi stated that digital transformation involves companies embracing new technology to create customer value or improve internal systems. He identified complexity from adopting new technologies as a key challenge, noting that fragmentation between on-premise and cloud infrastructure can slow transformation. Bedi described SolarWinds' approach as consolidating data, metrics, logs, and alerts from a company's entire infrastructure onto a single platform to reduce mean time to detect and resolve issues. In a September 2021 episode of The Guiding Voice podcast, Bedi characterized the public cloud versus on-premise decision as a cost and technology choice, comparing it to using Uber versus owning a car. He said enterprises typically use a hybrid approach combining both models, and that the decision to move to public cloud often originates from finance leaders managing capital versus operating expenditure. Bedi also noted that demand for enterprise IT hardware continues because cloud providers themselves purchase hardware, and he advised those entering the field to focus on fundamentals of compute, network, and storage.
“The core of digital transformation is companies trying to embrace new technology for essentially two reasons: either they're trying to create value for their end customers to create customer stickiness and doing innovations around this area, or they're trying to look at their internal systems and make that faster, bett...”
“The biggest challenge of digital transformation comes with embracing new technologies, and the biggest challenge is the complexity that comes with embracing all these new technologies.”
“Companies work on looking at do I have on-prem infrastructure, do I go cloud, where will my applications be hosted, so the fragmentation and complication behind these two technologies is the biggest reason why companies slow down on their digital transformation journey.”
“One of the ways SolarWinds solves these challenges is by looking at a company's entire infrastructure, applications, and database irrespective of the vendor or the OEM or where they are hosted, and SolarWinds tries to bring all the data, metrics, logs, events, alerts on a single platform.”
“If something goes wrong in your environment, we will be able to tell you and pinpoint exactly what went wrong, thereby reducing what companies call MTD or meantime to detect; we reduce that and also are able to resolve this for end customers.”
“Cloud is actually a great technology, but it's exactly like using an Uber versus buying your own car. If you have to drive 100 kilometers every day, buying a car makes more sense; if you only need occasional rides, Uber is better. Similarly, enterprises use a hybrid approach combining public cloud and on-premise infras...”
“The decision to move to public cloud often comes more from the finance head than the IT head, because public cloud helps manage the capital expenditure versus operating expenditure fight.”
“As applications get heavier and more advanced, they require more muscle power to run, which pushes innovation in hardware technology to create faster, better, and more efficient IT infrastructure.”
“There is no cloud versus on-premise; rather, it's a hybrid IT space where companies use a combination of public cloud technologies and on-premise data centers connected to each other to get the best of both worlds.”
“Enterprise infrastructure giants are thinking about flexible billing schemes that make technology consumption as sensible to the CFO as it is to the CIO.”
“The hardware still gets sold even when banks move to public cloud because cloud companies buy servers and storage from hardware vendors, so the demand for enterprise IT hardware continues.”
“To get deep into enterprise infrastructure, start with the fundamentals: compute, network, and storage. Understanding these three areas helps you grasp the innovations and technologies in the industry.”
“Career opportunities in enterprise infrastructure fall into three buckets: engineering and innovation (product creation), go-to-market (sales, marketing, consulting), and consumption (administration and maintenance).”
“Preparation plus opportunities equals finding the right roles. Opportunities come, but you must be prepared to seize them by continuous learning and upskilling.”
“Make multiple mentors who can guide you in different directions, and when you succeed, pass it on by mentoring others.”
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